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GOD = DOG · Behemoth

EXERCISE 5 OF 64
Groove A -- Outro (a two-bar phrase)
76 / 255 BARS COVERED
0 / 64 PASSED · 26 BARS LIT
PART B
PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART O
CHORUS 3
PART W
PART AC
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFWDOAC+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 9
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play GOD = DOG on drums

255 bars at 260 BPM -- fast, and 3:55 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
260 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
255
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
64/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-31, snare through bars 32-47, ride through bars 48-54, snare through bars 55-86 and toms through bars 87-91, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-38, 40-46 and 56-70, and 3 more places -- 28.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
GOD = DOG -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 39, 47, 55, 71, 87, 88 and 54 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A, D -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Bars 33-56 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through Part O -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is GOD = DOG?

260 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is GOD = DOG hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

255 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in GOD = DOG?

13 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 39, 47, 55, 71, 87, 88 and 54 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 255 BARS ANALYSED